Force Respawns

[jade lily]

So I get why EW removed when you main menu’ed, it’d force respawn all animals, but it was handy and I think we could still keep it but balance it out.

When you’re in the cache, you can force respawn killed animals by paying money. The money amount would scale off:

1. Species
2. Amount of animals respawned
   There’d be no pick and choosing what animals you want to respawn from, all or nothing.

I figure force respawning animals will come at a bit of a loss in terms of cash, but not so much so it’s pointless. I’m thinking 500-1,000 bucks loss each animal (so the average amount you get paid for that species +500-1,000 bucks each) since it’ll stack up fairly quickly I imagine.

For an example, let’s say I killed 4 male snow leopards on my map and their payout each was 2.1k. You’d be paying 12.4k to spawn them all back having of only made 8.4k off of them if the “respawn tax” is 1k per animal.

[drowsy crag]

I don't think EW would ever add this. It would break the immersion for a lot of people.

However I do agree the respawns do take to long sometimes. I personally would just like to see the respawn timer sped up a little. I think we have a better chance at that happening if enough of us get behind it. I don't see paying for respawns ever happening.

[jade lily]

I don’t really think it’s all that immersion breaking. It’s a simple mechanic that I think ties in pretty well with how COTW approaches this type of stuff mechanically. It’s like sleeping, I could wait for the time the animal arrives to its zone for free or spend some cash to speed it up a little.

[drowsy crag]

For me it would just feel odd. If you changed the post to speed up the respawns, I'm all over it with an upvote, because I would love too see that happen.

[jade lily]

I just don’t see it as too weird, it’s fine if you do but COTW is still a game and I think as long as they keep it balanced and not that crazy they’re allowed to do things like this.

Plus, if you really needed your immersion, I’m no hunter but don’t people pay to fill land with animals to hunt and as long as they’re not domestic, hurting the surrounding environment, and it’s an “actual hunt” it’s not really looked down upon? I could be wrong but I thought I’ve glanced people talk about exotic Texas game ranches and stuff in here or something before. Could just think of it like that.

If I’m wrong about the second point, that’s fine, I just still stand by my first ^^

[drowsy crag]

I want respawns to speed up a little, so I will upvote but my vote is not for paying for respawns.

[jade lily]

That’s fine! ^^

[jade lily]

Oh forgot to say, this force respawn suggestion would also go really well with an update that makes animals arriving at their zones at the right times a lot more consistent!